>> I think SCO is going to get themselves laughed out of court. The burden of >> proof is on them.
> I've just read through the complaint - and it is far from giggles. It > says that IBM developed AIX under a Unix license, and then signed an > additional contract "Project Monterey" - and has taken proprietary code > from those and open-sourced it into Linux. It could be very interesting indeed. What happens if one member of the open source community takes IP from somewhere and places it into the open source project without informing the others? Classicly anyone using that IP - even without knowing it even WAS someone else's IP - could be pursued. But how reasonable is it to expect everyone involved to follow an audit trail for every modification ever proposed? Making each contributor prove that their contributions were untrammeled would throttle the open source movement. Open source isn't named as a defendant in this, but it IS under attack. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
